Water users who currently hold permits for various activities in five Rwandan lakes will be required to relocate as the new master plan for the waterbodies designates their current location for other ...

Sambaza fish dry on racks in the sun at a fish-drying cooperative in Kibuye, Rwanda, June 1, 2018. Traditionally men's work, some women on Lake Kivu have joined fishing cooperatives, contributing ...

Rwanda imported 70,000 tonnes of frozen fish (excluding fillets) worth over $92 million (more than Rwf132 billion) in 2024, representing a 31.4 per cent in value terms, from $70 million in the ...

The other two lakes have both already exploded — Lake Nyos in 1986 and Lake Monoun in 1984, both in Cameroon — killing thousands of people and animals. Lake Kivu has yet to erupt — and the Rwandan ...

The Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) has issued a stern warning against the encroachment of Lake Kivu's protected buffer zone, following recent cases of businesses illegally ...

Lake Kivu’s eruption would be catastrophic. “ [The lake] would release the equivalent of 2-6 gigatonnes of carbon into the atmosphere in a day,” Morkel says.

Lake Kivu is a giant body of water that is so saturated with carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane at its depths it could explode without warning. Two other lakes in Africa have a similarly deadly ...

In January, 22 people died on Lake Maî-Ndombe and in April 2023, six were killed and 64 went missing on Lake Kivu. Witnesses said the boat that capsized on Thursday was visibly overcrowded.